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ey0015.11-3 | New insight into obesity comorbidities | ESPEYB15

11.3 Body mass index and kidney disease-related mortality in midlife: A nationwide cohort of 2.3 million adolescents

G Twig , A Vivante , T Bader , E Derazne , AM Tsur , M Levi , N Goldberger , A Leiba , JD Kark

To read the full abstract: Obesity 2018;26(4):776-781Here, Twig et al. shed light on an important, but not well investigated facet of the complex, multi-organ system chronic disease simply termed ‘obesity’. Using the large statistical power of this impressive, nation-wide database, the authors demonstrate high hazard ratios for obesity-related kidney mortality in a relatively young cohort...